Should higher education be driven only by academic merit? Could it be at free of cost?

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Harasit Kumar Paul

Higher education should not be free of cost. Those who are in hardship government can arrange soft loan for them.

P.K. Karmakar

If it is only merit that decides higher education, then higher education can be free of cost

Stanley Wilkin

The cost to the state of free education can be immense and although it does not remove education as a product from the economy it may not eventually allow the state's universities to compete with others. Nevertheless, purchased higher education depends on obtaining individuals with grants or parental wealth and so can lead to education as merely a symbol of class.